On 9/1/13, Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> wrote:
> ** If you want to link against any other libraries.Only if you want to do it statically, but you don't need to mess with
COFF for DLLs, most of these libs you've listed can build either
statically or as a DLL.
On 9/1/13, Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Most of who? The D devs? You all reject auto-complete and debuggers?Well, we do get things done:
> How do you get any work done?
http://www.ohloh.net/p/dmd/commits/summary
http://www.ohloh.net/p/libphobos/commits/summary
On 9/1/13, Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> - Deprecate DMD makefiles. Seriously! Insist that contributors use theHow is deprecating makefiles easier than making whatever IDE that
>>> IDE bindings to work on DMD.
>>
>> Not gonna happen.
>>
>
> Reconsider.
you're using just call a 'make' command when you click a button? Even
VS comes with nmake and friends.
On 9/1/13, Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Slowing us down won't help anyone.It would only make people leave the community, just like Tomasz
>
> I'd argue that it would; inflicting the pain of trying to be a productive D
> user on the developers will certainly highlight the importance of the
> issue.
Stachowiak (h3r3tic) left, and now I've learned Michel Fortin is also
not using D anymore.
Anyway it's not like we're not aware of the issues, these things are
brought up in the newsgroups every other day. But the only way to fix
the situation is: file bugs, contribute with pull requests.
On 9/1/13, Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm really don't like bugzilla as an end-user, but I'm not performingSee I don't understand this. You want everyone to work on the things
> searching actions.
> As a reporter, I find it's needless friction between me and reporting bugs,
> and I consequently report perhaps half as many bugs as I would otherwise,
you're most interested in (IDEs), but you can't bother reporting bugs.
> Are you saying I should have told everyone to set up their machines beforeWell look, you've obviously used D in a 64bit environment (so you've
> coming?
had to set this up yourself at least once), so I don't understand how
you've managed to lose 6 hours on it. :)